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Avance Consulting Services

Sr. Data Scientist

Avance Consulting Services, Memphis, Tennessee, us, 37544


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I have a job opportunity related to your profile with one of our clients. Please find below the Job Description for your review. If you are interested and available for the following position, then please send your updated resume in word format along with your contact details to discuss further.

Role: Sr. Data ScientistDuration: Full Time / PermanentLocation: Memphis, TN

Required Skills:

Overall Responsibilities:

Senior data scientist.Research various analytical approaches.Recommend and develop mathematical algorithms for related business problems.Communicate and direct development teams on implementation of statistical models.Interface with Business users and gather feedback on delivered analytical data.Deploy solutions on to big data platforms.

Functional Responsibilities:

Work on one of the following initiatives within Predictive Client Analytics group: RFM recommendations, CCAR and other projects TBD.Validation of analytical approaches produced by vendor and 3rd party consulting teams.Developing data validation methods.

Required Skills:

Technical / Analytical Skills:

Excellent understanding and experience with application of machine learning concepts and techniques (linear/logistic regression, clustering, classification, PCA, Naive Bayes, association rules, Collaborative Filtering, recommendation techniques, etc.).Experience with regression techniques for modeling the relationship between an output variable and several input variables.Experience with Big Data technologies.Experience with visualization tools like Tableau.Experience creating interface specification documents, attribute mapping documents, functional specifications.Experience with web scraping.Experience with Text Matching applications.

Nice to have:

Understanding of regulatory guidelines (CCAR, Basel) around Model Risk Management.Working knowledge of various Fixed Income and Equities products, for example Derivatives, FX and Cash Equities.

Essential Skills:

Strong verbal and written communication skills.Strong research skills.Python, R, SQL, Hive, Spark.Statistical analysis: To understand and work around possible limitations in models.Being able to develop hypotheses and test the hypotheses with careful experiments.Research and implement data mining machine learning algorithms in supervised and unsupervised learning areas.Should have experience with time series modeling.Should have experience with optimization approaches.Familiarity with the Big Data Ecosystem tools: Hadoop, Hive, Impala, Mahout, Spark (Spark SQL, MLLib), Hbase and be comfortable using the tools.Strong experience in data manipulation using SQL on Hive/Impala or other Databases.Experience in developing and deploying models with Mahout, Spark MLLib is preferable.Must be proficient in programming either R/Python/Scala.Should have experience in Financial services industry - Capital market would be preferable.Should have exposure to Data Visualization tools: Tableau (Preferable)/Qlikview/Excel.

Additional Information

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